9 Iraqi security staff, 18 Daesh fighters killed in Mosul

Nine members of the Iraqi security services and 18 members of Daesh were killed during armed confrontations yesterday afternoon in the Old City of Mosul.

Major General Aifan Al-Dulaimi, the head of the Rapid Response Division, told the Anadolu Agency: “Fighting is continuing in the areas of Dhaka Baraka, Ras Al-Kor, Al-Shaareen market, Nineveh Street, Najafi and Sheikh Abu Al-Ola Street within the old area”.

He added that “four members of the Federal Police Forces have been killed and three members of the rapid reaction forces including a lieutenant as well as a soldier and a lieutenant officer from the counter-terrorism forces during confrontations with the terrorist group.”

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Nine members of the Federal Police Forces were wounded during the fighting, he explained.

“Eighteen gunmen were also killed while the forces detained five others; two of them foreigners, and confiscated weapons of various types.”